Abstract
The immediate-early (IE) and early proteins induced by murine cytomegalovirus (Smith strain) in permissively infected 3T3-L1 murine fibroblasts were identified by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Ten proteins were classified as IE by their time of synthesis and by their synthesis in the presence of actinomycin D following reversal of a cycloheximide mediated protein synthesis block. By exclusion, seven proteins were classified as early class. Eleven of these proteins were precipitated by MCMV antiserum. The role of IE and early proteins in the replication of the virus was studied by infection of a murine macrophage cell line (J 774A.1) and human foreskin fibroblast (HFF) cells. The infections were characterized as nonpermissive by several criteria, including lack of production of infectious virus or viral DNA. However, the major IE and early MCMV proteins were detected in the nonpermissively infected cells. The block to virus replication in the macrophage and human fibroblast cells appeared to occur after the switch from IE to early protein synthesis, but before viral DNA replication.
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